Sempervivum kopaonikense Pančić (1867: 173)

Nikolić, Danijela, Kuzmanović, Nevena, Walter, Johannes, Lakušić, Dmitar, Ranđelović, Vladimir & Letz, Dominik Roman, 2014, Lectotypification of some names in the Jovibarba heuffelii group (Crassulaceae), Phytotaxa 174 (4), pp. 206-222 : 215-216

Sempervivum kopaonikense Pančić (1867: 173)

Lectotype (designated here):— SERBIA. Rasina district : “ Sempervivum soboliferum Sims. Na vrhu Kopaonika [on the top of Kopaonik] okrug Kruševački [district of Kruševac], Avg. 852 [August 1852]” Pančić s.n. ( BEOU 3933 !, the specimen with the inflorescence). Fig. 7 .

Notes:— Pančić (1867: 173) published the name Sempervivum kopaonikense including a short diagnosis. However, he expressed that it was possibly conspecific with “ Sempervivum reginae-amaliae Heldr. ” and perhaps just an alpine variant of S. heuffelii . Later on, Pančić cited the name in the Flora Principatus Serbiae (1874: 314), and in the Flora of Bulgaria ( Pančić 1883: 30), where he quoted his description of the 1874, thus not considering his earlier description as valid. The year 1874 has been adopted as valid date of publication (e.g., Hart et al. 2003). However, according to Art. 36.1(a) of the Code ( McNeill et al. 2012) the name was already validly published in the year 1867, although it was mentioned with an indication of taxonomic doubt. Pančić’s original material was collected on Mt. Kopaonik in August 1852 and determined as S. soboliferum Sims (1812 : tab. 1457), and this record was also published ( Pančić 1856: 519). When Pančić (1874: 314) published this record under the name S. kopaonikense , he stressed its close relationship with S. patens and S. soboliferum . He never revised his former determination (“ S. soboliferum ”) of the original specimen of S. kopaonikense . Based on the only locality cited in the protologue “ Suvo Rudište ” [top of Mt. Kopaonik] ( Pančić 1867: 173), and the morphology of the preserved specimen in BEOU (3933), the specimen with the inflorescence is designated here as lectotype. The information about the designation of a lectotype for S. kopaonikense has already been given in the XVII International Botanical Congress book of abstracts ( Lakušić et al. 2005), however without any data on the lectotype. This typification is not effectively published, since the information on the type specimen was provided only on the poster (Art. 30.1, McNeill et al. 2012). Moreover, the specimen designated as a lectotype on the poster ( WU 0034017) was collected in 1874, so it cannot be considered as a part of the original material.

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FIGURE 7. Lectotype of Sempervivum kopaonikense Pančić (BEOU 3933, the specimen with the inflorescence).